![]() ![]() Check out Flatt & Scruggs Live at Carnegie Hall, and when you’re done with that, get a load of Doc Watson’s tasty guitar fills in the version at the bottom. The number of big bluegrass acts that have covered this song is too large to list here. And rightly so, because it’s about as lonesome a song as you’ll hear. Hank Snow’s 1950 recording brought the song to prominence, but it was acts like the Louvin Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, and Jim & Jesse that brought it into the bluegrass canon. We can presume Bond was one of those Rough Riders. Tonight my heart is sad and weary Wonderin' if I'm wrong or right I dream about you though you've left me I wonder where you are tonight The rain is cold and slowly fallin' Upon my window pane tonight And though you're love was even colder I wonder where you are tonight It's spring, the birds are gaily singing The trees are blossoming so sweet N. ![]() It’s a good one for beginners-all the basic chord changes, and easy to predict where it’s going next.Ĭountry music hall-of-famer Johnny Bond apparently wrote the song, and recorded it in 1940 with Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders. It’s one of the first songs I learned when I first started going to bluegrass jams and didn’t know a lick of bluegrass. I had to do some research to learn more about “I Wonder Where You Are Tonight.” It’s one of those songs that just seems like it has always been around.įor me, it has. Also Good: Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson and Del McCoury TonightE Im saAd, my heart is wEeary Im wondAering if Im wrong or rEight Although youve Agone and found aEnother I wonder where youB7 are toniEght. ![]()
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